# Deaths in July 2002
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2002.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## July 2002
### 1

* Sid Avery, 83, American photographer (Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor).
* John Barr, 83, American professional basketball player (Penn State, St. Louis Bombers) and coach (Susquehanna University).
* Mikhail Krug, 40, Russian singer, shot.
* Pedro Maratea, 89, Argentine actor.
* Meyer Reinhold, 92, American classical scholar.
* K. Venkatalakshmma, 96, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer.
* Maritta Wolff, 83, American author, novels adapted to film: Whistle Stop, The Man I Love.

### 2

* Earle Brown, 75, American composer, cancer.
* Ray Brown, 75, American jazz bassist, known for working with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.
* Robert I. Friedman, 51, American investigative journalist.
* Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, 93, French organist and composer.
* James Lee, 79, American screenwriter, heart failure and emphysema.

### 3

* Henry Cianfrani, 79, American state senator who served prison time on corruption charges, stroke.
* Jimmy Edwards, 49, American professional football player (Minnesota Vikings).
* Earl Francis, 66, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist.
* Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American nuclear physicist.

### 4

* Gerald Bales, 83, Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer.
* Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., 89, American U.S. Air Force four-star general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen, Alzheimer's disease.
* Mansoor Hekmat, 51, Iranian theorist, cancer.
* Ivan Moffat, 84, British screenwriter, film producer and socialite.
* Lutz Moik, 71, German actor.
* Sten Samuelson, 76, Swedish architect.
* Laurent Schwartz, 87, French mathematician.
* Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, British-American oldest living survivor of the Titanic.
* Gene Wilson, 76, American professional football player (SMU, Green Bay Packers).

### 5

* Paul Claudon, 82, French film producer and actor.
* Harold Dejan, 93, American New Orleans jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader, best remembered as leader of the Olympia Brass Band.
* Antonio Domenicali, 66, Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.
* Brett Hill, 57, Australian Olympic swimmer (men's 200 metre butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
* Katy Jurado, 78, Mexican actress, kidney failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Zdzisław Mrożewski, 93, Polish actor.
* Paul Weiss, 101, American philosopher and author, founded The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America.
* Reinhard Wenskus, 86, German historian.
* Wallace G. Wilkinson, 60, American businessman and politician, 57th Governor of Kentucky, stroke.
* Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), manager (Washington Senators/Texas Rangers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame, heart attack.

### 6

* Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman, stroke.
* John Frankenheimer, 72, American film and television director (Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May), heart attack, stroke.
* Cheikh El Hasnaoui, 91, Algerian singer.
* Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright, leukemia.
* Thakur Ram Lal, 72, Indian politician.
* Ugo Lombardi, 90, Italian cinematographer.
* Haji Abdul Qadeer, 51, Afghan Northern Alliance leader, shot.
* William B. Ruger, 86, American firearms designer and entrepreneur.
* Pietro Valpreda, 69, Italian anarchist, poet, dancer and novelist.

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* Kirkor Canbazyan, 90, Turkish Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Jim Cherry, 30, American musician, heart problems.
* Bison Dele, 33, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons), murdered.
* Dorle Soria, 101, American publicist, music producer and journalist.
* John Butler Walden, 62, Tanzanian military officer.
* Ray Wood, 71, English professional footballer.

### 8

* Ward Kimball, 88, American animator (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins), pneumonia.
* Clarence Lightner, 80, American politician and mortician.
* Lorna Marshall, 103, American anthropologist.
* Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Oxford.
* William Sarjeant, 66, British-born Canadian geologist.
* Earl Shannon, 80, American basketball player and college coach.
* Sidney Spivak, 74, Canadian politician.

### 9

* Gerald Campion, 81, English actor (Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School).
* George Elias, 88, Australian rower (men's eight rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Bruno Freindlich, 92, Soviet and Russian actor.
* Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.
* Madron Seligman, 83, British politician.
* Kenneth Snowman, 82, British jeweller.
* Dave Sorenson, 54, American NBA and Ohio State University basketball player, cancer.
* Rod Steiger, 77, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago), Oscar winner (1968), kidney failure.
Grace Bakunda Lynn 26 a Ugandan activist . Working for Acode Uganda died in a motor accident

### 10

* Mario Cordero, 72, Costa Rican football player and coach, respiratory arrest.
* Jean-Pierre Côté, 76, Canadian politician (Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Senator for Kennebec, Quebec).
* Albertin Disseaux, 87, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Laurence Janifer, 69, American science fiction writer.
* Walter McCrone, 86, American chemist.
* Alan Shulman, 85, American composer and cellist.
* John Wallach, 59, American journalist and author, founder of Seeds of Peace.

### 11

* Bernardas Brazdžionis, 95, Lithuanian poet.
* Rosco Gordon, 74, American blues singer and songwriter, heart attack.
* John Howse, 88, Australian politician.
* Garry Kelly, 54, Australian politician, suicide.
* Sun Li, 89, Chinese writer.

### 12

* Mary Carew, 88, American Olympic sprinter (women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
* Guillermo Larco Cox, 70, Peruvian politician.
* Josefina de la Torre, 94, Spanish novelist, opera singer, and actress.
* Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent and defector, fall.
* Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist, cardiac arrest.
* Ghanshyambhai C. Oza, 90, Indian politician.
* Guglielmo Pesenti, 68, Italian racing cyclist.
* Tim Rathbone, 69, English politician, cancer.
* Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 70, Turkish poet.

### 13

* Carey Blyton, 70, British composer and writer.
* Yousuf Karsh, 93, Canadian portrait photographer, cancer.
* Benny Peled, 74, Israeli Air Force commander, pulmonary emphysema.
* Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.
* Herbert Vesely, 71, Austrian film director and screenwriter.
* Percy Yutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela.

### 14

* Igor Ansoff, 83, Russian-American economist and author, father of strategic business management, pneumonia.
* David Asseo, 88, Turkish Chief Rabbi and spiritual leader of the Republic of Turkey from 1960 to 2002.
* Juaqín Balaguey, 95, President of the Dominican Republic (1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, 1986 to 1996), peptic ulcer disease.
* Nelson Barrera, 44, Mexican baseball player, led the Mexican League in career home runs (455) and RBIs (1,927), electrocution.
* Nabakanta Barua, 75, Indian novelist and poet.
* Alex Fraser, 78, British-American scientist, recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary computation.
* Fritz Glatz, 58, Austrian racing driver, traffic collision.
* Cosetta Greco, 71, Italian film actress.
* Hwang Kee, 87, Korean martial artist.
* Dick Ploog, 65, Australian cyclist.

### 15

* Charles R. Burton, 59, English explorer, known for being a member of the Transglobe Expedition, heart attack.
* György Fehér, 63, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
* Lauri Honko, 70, Finnish professor of folklore studies and comparative religion.
* Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
* Barbara Randolph, 60, American singer and actress, cancer.
* Philip Roth, 72, American actor.
* Pete Seibert, 77, American skier, esophageal cancer.

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* John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist.
* Aleksandr Kolchinsky, 47, Soviet Ukrainian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion, heart failure.
* George Edmund Lindsay, 85, American botanist, naturalist, and museum director.
* Jack Olsen, 77, American journalist and author .
* Antonella Della Porta, 74, Italian actress.
* Floyd James Thompson, 69, United States Army colonel.

### 17

* Harry W. Gerstad, 93, American film editor.
* Valentina Kamenyok-Vinogradova, 59, Soviet/Russian Olympic volleyball player.
* Joseph Luns, 90, Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO (1971–1984).
* Ubiratan Pereira Maciel, 58, Brazilian basketball player.
* Lee Maye, 67, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), cancer.
* George Rickey, 95, American kinetic sculptor.
* André Simonyi, 88, Hungarian-French football player.
* Bobby Worth, 89, American songwriter, recorded by Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.

### 18

* Victor Emery, 68, English physicist, ALS.
* Howard Ensign Evans, 83, American entomologist.
* Qiu Huizuo, 88, Chinese Army lieutenant general.
* Andy Kirby, 40, American stock car racing driver, traffic collision.
* Györgyi Marvalics-Székely, 77, Hungarian fencer and Olympic silver medalist.
* Lee Siew-Choh, 84, Singaporean politician and medical doctor, lung cancer.
* Owsei Temkin, 99, Russian-American medical historian.
* Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and politician, prostate cancer.
* Del Wilber, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox) and manager (Texas Rangers).
* Alexandra Zapp, 30, American murder victim.

### 19

* Jack Backman, 80, American politician.
* Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.
* Alexander Ginzburg, 65, Soviet dissident.
* Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.
* Evdokia Petrova, 86, Soviet spy in Australia in the 1950s.
* Barry Reed, 75, American trial lawyer and author.
* Spec Shea, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).
* Frank Taylor, 81, English sports journalist.
* Vladimir Vasyutin, 50, Soviet cosmonaut, cancer.

### 20

* Pedro Alberto Cano Arenas, 33, Spanish footballer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Michalis Kritikopoulos, 56, Greek footballer, cardiac arrest.
* Jan Komski, 87, Polish painter.
* Jimmy Maxwell, 85, American swing jazz trumpeter.
* Roland E. Murphy, 85, American Catholic prelate and biblical scholar.

### 21

* John Cunningham, 84, British World War II nightfighter pilot.
* Millie Deegan, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Gus Dudgeon, 59, English record producer ("Space Oddity", "Your Song", "Rocket Man", "Daniel"), traffic collision.
* Peter Elstob, 86, British soldier, adventurer, novelist and entrepreneur.
* Jeffrey Harborne, 73, British chemist and professor of botany.
* Esphyr Slobodkina, 93, Russian-American artist, author, and illustrator.

### 22

* Fernando Schwalb López Aldana, 85, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1963–1965, 1983–1984).
* Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer (one silver medal: 1928, three bronze medals: 1928, 1928, 1932).
* Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.
* Viktor Mineyev, 65, Soviet-Azerbaijani modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion.
* Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer, lung cancer.
* Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
* Salah Shehade, 49, Palestinian politician and one of the founders of Islamist movement Hamas, airstrike.
* Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer, heart attack.

### 23

* Gunnar Andreassen, 89, Norwegian football player and manager.
* Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.
* Clark Gesner, 64, American composer, songwriter, author, and actor, heart attack.
* Olof Lagercrantz, 91, Swedish writer, critic, and literary scholar .
* Hermann Lindemann, 91, German football player and manager.
* Ned Martin, 78, American sportscaster, heart attack.
* Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor, diabetes.
* Katya Paskaleva, 56, Bulgarian film and stage actress, pancreatic cancer.
* William Luther Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries, cancer.
* Chaim Potok, 73, American author, brain cancer.
* Idrees Sulieman, 78, American bop and hard bop trumpeter, bladder cancer.
* Arnold Weinstock, 77, British industrialist and businessman, managing director of the General Electric Company.

### 24

* Mike Clark, 61, American gridiron football player(Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys), heart attack.
* Pete Coscarart, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Maurice Denham, 92, British character actor (The Purple Plain, Sink the Bismarck!, The Day of the Jackal).
* Mustafa Mansour, 87, Egyptian football player.
* Al Silvera, 66, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs).
* Gaynell Tinsley, 87, American football player and coach.
* Barney White, 79, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

### 25

* Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.
* Bob Barr, 94, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Frank Connell, 92, American Olympic cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1932 Summer Olympics).
* Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, 76, German Roman Catholic prelate.
* Hans Dorjee, 60, Dutch football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
* Rudi Dornbusch, 60, German macroeconomist, made fundamental contributions to international economics, cancer.
* Cliff Lewis, 79, American gridiron football player.
* Izzy León, 91, Cuban-American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, 63, British hereditary peer, heart attack.
* Louis Owens, 54, American novelist and scholar, suicide by gunshot.
* Alexander Ratiu, 86, Romanian-American priest of the Greek-Catholic Church.
* Mel Triplett, 71, American gridiron football player.

### 26

* Tony Anholt, 61, British actor (Howards' Way), brain tumor.
* Buddy Baker, 84, American film composer (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Fox and the Hound).
* Kenny Gardner, 89, American singer for Guy Lombardo's band, the Royal Canadians.
* Dolores Olmedo, 93, Mexican businesswoman, philanthropist and musician.
* Kobun Chino Otogawa, 64, Japanese Sōtō Zen priest, drowned.

### 27

* Anatoli Bashashkin, 78, Russian footballer and coach (gold medal winner at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
* Ronald Brown, 80, British politician (member of Parliament representing Shoreditch and Finsbury and Hackney South and Shoreditch).
* Dick Cleveland, 72, American Olympic swimmer (men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Frank Inn, 86, American animal trainer.
* Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice President (1997 -2002), Governor of Tamil Nadu (1996–1997) and Governor of Andhra Pradesh (1990 -1997), heart attack.
* Roscoe Shelton, 70, American blues and R&B singer, cancer.

### 28

* Svetomir Belić, 55, Serbian Olympic boxer.
* Anatol Fejgin, 91, Polish communist and political police commander.
* Jack Karnehm, 85, British snooker commentator, heat stroke.
* Archer John Porter Martin, 92, British chemist.
* Donald J. Pease, 70, American politician.
* Steve Souchock, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers).
* Gerhard Wessel, 88, German intelligence officer, President of the Federal Intelligence Bureau.

### 29

* Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor (The Red Shoes, Darling, The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Lovejoy).
* Ad Dekkers, 48, Dutch cyclist.
* Elmar Frings, 63, German Olympic pentathlete (1964 pentathlon: team and individual, 1968 pentathlon: team and individual).
* Sudhir Phadke, 83, India Marathi singer-composer, brain haemorrhage.
* Renato Pirocchi, 69, Italian racing driver.
* Phil Smith, 50, American basketball player, complications from multiple myeloma cancer.
* Ron Walotsky, 58, American science fiction and fantasy artist.

### 30

* George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.
* Lyle Benjamin Borst, 89, American nuclear physicist and inventor, worked on the Manhattan Project.
* Ed Bruneteau, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
* A. E. Dyson, 73, British literary critic, activist and gay rights campaigner, leukemia.
* Gerald Gunther, 75, German-American constitutional law scholar.
* Steven Lysak, 89, American sprint canoeist and Olympic champion at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
* Atef Salem, 75, Egyptian film director.
* Reginald Schroeter, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.

### 31

* Boris Aleksandrov, 46, Soviet and Kazakh ice hockey player (USSR champion team for CSKA Moscow, gold medal winner at 1976 Winter Olympics), traffic collision.
* Sir Peter Ashmore, 81, British admiral and Master of the Household to the Sovereign.
* Raymond Brookes, Baron Brookes, 93, British industrialist and life peer.
* Slávka Budínová, 78, Czechoslovak actress.
* Pauline Chan, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide by jumping.
* Gordon Chown, 79, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of Parliament (House of Commons representing Winnipeg South, Manitoba).
* Francis Searle, 93, English film director, writer and producer.